Published Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Recent reports show that women take nearly 50% more sick leave than men.  In a study conducted by the the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 1999, job absence rates are higher for women than for men, about 5.1% of women (including 5.6% of women aged 20-24) were absent in the average week, compared with 2.7% of men.  This means women worked less than 35 hours during the week because of injury, illness, or some various reasons.  Among those absent, women were more likely to be absent due to reasons other than injury and illness.  Absence rates do not vary much by age: 55 or older had the highest absence rate at 4.2%, 16-19 years old at 4.0%, 20-24 year olds at 3.9% and the lowest is the 25-54 year olds at 3.7%.  The global participation of women in the labor force grew consistently during this period of time.

Absence for various reasons has, for the most part, decreased slowly between 500 to 100 days per year from that of 1970. By far the greatest decrease has occurred in vacation days, from a height 3,500 in 1990 to 2,900 in 2005.

Tags: Female Labor Participation, Jobs, Labor Statistics

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